Wiping out the Undead

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by alexti:
Flames from the sky work nicely. Triple-casting it will reduce the army to about 1/8 of its original size. If they're hiding behind domes, flamestorm works nice too. Mass-wither-bones is another good strategy.

In my experience, triple or quadruple casting flames from the sky will only kill 1/2 of the troops at most, since the half that are outside of the camp are outside of the camp for every casting of the army killing rituals.

[spirokeat]

50 gold priests, drag their old carcasses out of the priory and away from the port, cheese and choir boys. Send squadrons of them with high prot protection in front of them.

And archers, they tear up the longdead.

Spiro

[Boron]

Originally posted by Cainehill:



Although ... It does eventually start to seem like _every_ nation needs nature magic, given that the Chalice and GoH are the only things that heal wounds on all pretenders, and both require nature.

Anything other than Nature and Death give decent death mages as a summonable?

vampire lords are decent death mages but you need death 4 blood 3 to summon them so for the first one you most likely will have to take this on your pretender.
fortunately the vampire lords are death 3 blood 3 and +1 death via items is an easy task so once the first is summoned via pretender they can summon themselves with only 1 +1death item .

edit : finally ether lords have death 2 + 1 random sorcery , so 1/4 chance for death 3

[ July 17, 2004, 11:48: Message edited by: Boron ]

[alexti]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:

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Originally posted by alexti:
Flames from the sky work nicely. Triple-casting it will reduce the army to about 1/8 of its original size. If they're hiding behind domes, flamestorm works nice too. Mass-wither-bones is another good strategy.

In my experience, triple or quadruple casting flames from the sky will only kill 1/2 of the troops at most, since the half that are outside of the camp are outside of the camp for every casting of the army killing rituals.

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I'm pretty sure, the affected half is taken from whatever is in the province when the casting is resolved. I had somewhat long war with Ermor and every time I was able to kill most of his army with multiple castings. With majority of Ermor's hordes being low on HP, flames from the sky tend to kill most of the targeted half. It was very encouraging to see those huge 2000+ armies to go down to 300 in one turn

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by alexti:
It was very encouraging to see those huge 2000+ armies to go down to 300 in one turn

It's also very encouraging to watch the aforementioned bombardiers rack up major HoF points for the wanton carnage.

[alexti]

Originally posted by Norfleet:

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Originally posted by alexti:
It was very encouraging to see those huge 2000+ armies to go down to 300 in one turn

It's also very encouraging to watch the aforementioned bombardiers rack up major HoF points for the wanton carnage.

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Yeah, those strength and attack bonuses were indispensable for my fire mages.

[Blitz]

50 gold priests, drag their old carcasses out of the priory and away from the port, cheese and choir boys. Send squadrons of them with high prot protection in front of them

God that's funny =)